Book Reviews | Environment
After the Big Climate Summits Are Over
In Paul Almeida's Climate Change and Civic Engagement, the only pathway forward is broad worker-based civic alliances that go beyond narrow elite-driven technological decarbonization.
Reviews of top books on social innovation
In Paul Almeida's Climate Change and Civic Engagement, the only pathway forward is broad worker-based civic alliances that go beyond narrow elite-driven technological decarbonization.
Two recent books explore the modern prominence of the global financial-inclusion agenda and argue about how it got there.
Laura Mauldin's In Sickness and in Health examines the plight of family caregivers and the ableism that causes them to suffer their burden alone.
Stephanie Limoncelli's Advocacy, Inc. argues that the anti-slavery movement's business-friendly orientation impairs its ability to advocate on behalf of workers and exploited victims of trafficking.
Jason Corburn and DeVone Boggan's Advancing Peace explores a striking model for addressing urban gun violence without police.
As refugees transform urban spaces, we must build the infrastructure to make it for the good.
Peter Apps' Homesick argues that beneath the housing crisis of rents and shortages is a deeper history of community-unbuilding.
Celina Su's Budget Justice is a call to reengage citizenry and build solidarity through participatory democracy.
Andrew Hoffman argues for a reinvention of business education so that tomorrow's leaders can effectively tackle today's largest challenges.
Iconoclast Sarah Schulman pulls from her decades of activism to present a passionate testimony on living a life of solidarity.